The Top 16 Chicken Breeds for Your Backyard Flock

For the past couple decades, chickens have been growing in popularity as people become more interested in knowing where their food comes from, and desire to live a more natural lifestyle. But they are so much more than just egg factories. Watching chickens scratch about the yard is relaxing and de-stressing after a long day at work. Many pet chickens are extremely tame and will eat out of your hand and sit on your lap. Need more convincing that chickens are awesome?

Cream Legbars are good foragers, and keen to spotting and avoiding predators when free ranging. Being on the smaller side for "large fowl", they can move quick! They are tolerant to heat, cold, and confinement. One additional awesome trait these birds have going for them is that they're auto-sexing. That means that as day-old chicks, you can easily tell the two sexes apart. So whether you're ordering from a hatchery, picking some up from a local breeder, or hatching your own eggs at home, you know what you're getting into right away! The baby males will have a light spot on the top of their head, which the females lack.